The Commentary of Al-Qasidah — Page 67
The commentary of al-Qa si dah 67 you were within my range but I did not strike you because you were my father. ’ Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra immediately replied, ‘By God, if you were in my range I would have certainly killed you and would not have cared the least because you had come there to fight against the Prophet of All a h. ’ ( Ar-Rau d ul-Unuf, Im a m Suhail i , vol. 3, p. 89–90, Couplet of H ass a n, D a rul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 2004) The second incident involves Hadrat Sa‘d bin Ab i Waqq as ra. He used to take care of his mother and was very charitable towards her. She was adamantly opposed to his acceptance of Islam. When she realized her advice and efforts were unsuccessful, and noticed that Sa‘d had no intention of leaving his Faith, she became desperate. She said that she would give up eating and would not resume until he gave up Islam, and if he did not then she would die of hunger and the people would consider him the murderer of his mother. He put forth his best effort to get her to eat, but she would not. On the third day he said to her : ; ' " f; @ A Q E @ YQO ; ;< " ; J"^ *J"^; * Q Y ; B ; ;g;L 7hQ ;* W 7 i;c Meaning, ‘I swear in the name of All a h, that if you possessed not one life, but one hundred lives, and they were to die one at a time, even then I would not give up my religion. It is up to you whether you chose to eat or not. ’ ( Tafs i rul-Qur’ a nil-‘A zi m, Ibni Kathir, vol. 6, p. 301, Tafs i ru S u rati Luqm a n, under verse no. 16, D a rul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 2004)